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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 00:52:00

One mayoral candidate ran on a promise to tear the rusting towers down; instead they became one of the most influential park designs of the twentieth century. Gas Works Park, at 2101 North Northlake Way on a promontory jutting into Lake Union, preserves the remnants of the last coal gasification plant in the United States - and turned a toxic industrial ruin into Seattle's most distinctive public space. The Seattle Gas Light Company plant manufactured the city's gas from 1906 to 1956, first fro...